Verse 14

The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.

Referenced Verses

• Job 22:4 : 4 Is it because you give him honour that he is sending punishment on you and is judging you?
• Ps 143:2 : 2 Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.
• Isa 3:2-3 : 2 The strong man and the man of war; the judge and the prophet; the man who has knowledge of secret arts, and the man who is wise because of his years; 3 The captain of fifty, and the man of high position, and the wise guide, and the wonder-worker, and he who makes use of secret powers.
• Isa 5:7 : 7 For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.
• Jer 5:27 : 27 As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.
• Amos 4:1 : 1 Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.
• Mic 2:2 : 2 They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.
• Mic 6:10 : 10 Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?
• Matt 21:33 : 33 Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.
• Jas 2:6 : 6 But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?
• Job 24:2-7 : 2 The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers. 3 They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt. 4 The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together. 5 Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children. 6 They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth. 7 They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold.
• Job 24:9 : 9 The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.
• Job 34:23 : 23 For he does not give man a fixed time to come before him to be judged.
• Ps 14:4 : 4 Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.